A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4 |
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To which the stores Cresus , in the scale , Thy place is here , sad sister ; come away : Would look like little dolphins , when they sail . Once , like thyself , I trembled , wept , and pray'd ; In the vast shadow of the British whale .
To which the stores Cresus , in the scale , Thy place is here , sad sister ; come away : Would look like little dolphins , when they sail . Once , like thyself , I trembled , wept , and pray'd ; In the vast shadow of the British whale .
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Of the king's look , but hath a heart that is To SCOURGE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] Glad at the thing they scowl at . Sikapcare . 1. To lash with a whip ; to whip . The dusky clouds o'erspread Heav'n's cheerful face ; the low'ring ...
Of the king's look , but hath a heart that is To SCOURGE . v . a . [ from the noun . ] Glad at the thing they scowl at . Sikapcare . 1. To lash with a whip ; to whip . The dusky clouds o'erspread Heav'n's cheerful face ; the low'ring ...
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Dryden . breast , If chance a mouse creeps in her sight , Lest by my look or colour be express'd Can finely counterfeit a fright ; The mark of aught high - born , or ever better dress'd . Prior . So sweetly screams , if it comes near ...
Dryden . breast , If chance a mouse creeps in her sight , Lest by my look or colour be express'd Can finely counterfeit a fright ; The mark of aught high - born , or ever better dress'd . Prior . So sweetly screams , if it comes near ...
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Look i ' your glass now , The blood at scupper boles run out . Ward . And see how scurvily that countenance shews ; SCURF . n . s . ( rcunf , Saxon ; skarfa , You would be loth to own it . Ben Jonson .
Look i ' your glass now , The blood at scupper boles run out . Ward . And see how scurvily that countenance shews ; SCURF . n . s . ( rcunf , Saxon ; skarfa , You would be loth to own it . Ben Jonson .
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To make a search ; to look for someSE'Amy . adj . [ from seam . ] Having a thing . scam ; showing the seam . Satisfy me once more ; once more search with Some such squire he Sbakspears . was , That turn'd your wit the seamy side without ...
To make a search ; to look for someSE'Amy . adj . [ from seam . ] Having a thing . scam ; showing the seam . Satisfy me once more ; once more search with Some such squire he Sbakspears . was , That turn'd your wit the seamy side without ...
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Page 39 - God knows, my son, By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways I met this crown ; and I myself know well How troublesome it sat upon my head : To thee it shall descend with better quiet, Better opinion, better confirmation ; For all the soil of the achievement goes With me into the earth.
Page 67 - Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung : as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 99 - Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 46 - Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Page 109 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 82 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 30 - And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream. With these, that never fade, the Spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks, inwreath'd with beams : Now in loose garlands thick thrown off, the bright Pavement, that like a sea of jasper shone, Impurpled with celestial roses smiled.
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| Title | A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4 A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Sep 7, 2006 |
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